Painting, Cailper Options

[Shigexile]

I was thinking about painting the cailpers blue but what do you guys think? I mean its not gonna be blue blue but like a dark blue you know. On a silver car, a blue caliper... Just help me out by giving me some thoughts on how it would look. Thanks guys

This post has been edited by Shigexile: Sep 21, 2004 - 11:02 PM

[mjmsoccer]

Hey man I did it to my calipers. Wasn't too bad to do. Just tape everything off real well. I did bright blue like the color of the Ford logo, it kinda matched my car. I have some pics, not great pics, but if you wanna see let me know. I don't know how much dark blue would should up but its your call.

[Shigexile]

do you think you can post the pics on this thread?

[mjmsoccer]

Like i said they aren't great, and I don't have a camera down here at school but you can get the general idea.

[Shigexile]

very nice! I like. But do you think it will look good on a silver car?

This post has been edited by Shigexile: Sep 22, 2004 - 5:16 PM

[fastgt]

what type of paint would u use?

[chucho]

there is high temp caliper paint at wal-mart. Its extremely easy and looks good. I painted mine bright red.

[chucho]

a bright blue would look good. Or a bright yellow

[Mike]

red capilers! go for red!

[Shigexile]

i'm thinking about gold now. I don't think the blue would match my car.
So they sell this at wallmart eh??

This post has been edited by Shigexile: Sep 22, 2004 - 7:42 PM

[chucho]

they sell it at any automotive place. The caliper paint cost about 5-6 a can but you can get high temp paint for 2-3 that will work the same

[Shigexile]

sweet thanks guys

[exxtractor]

Caliper Paint Kit

This might make your job easier

[Shigexile]

[Yota]

I just bought the caliper kit today at Advanced Autoparts.

I dont like it. I used it on my drums, maybe that was why...but it streaked really bad and the hairs from the brush always got stuck on the drum.. I just resorted to spraying them with 1200 degree engine paint. They look great. I had to redo them because after 2 years they started to fade from the first time I did it.
My calipers are still looking good though!

And yes...I went with RED!!!!!!!!!!

[mjmsoccer]

Yeah I got mine from walmart also for like 6 bucks. my friend bought the whole caliper painting kit from walmart and I used his cleaner. It was real simple just spray on and wipe off. Then paint. I also did my drums and it seemed to do ok

[mikeh117]

I Painted mine yellow - check out the pics in my profile. Make sure you get paint designed for the job as brakes get hot and you don't want it to flake. Get a good gloss paint to give them a real shine.

[HaRv3sTeR]

look at my profile for silver calipers on silver car

looks great IMO

[Ricky]

I painted mine in black. I like to keep it low profile..

I did however painted more than just the calipers... I painted the inside fender including the plastic covers. It looks EXTRA clean and when I am cleaning the car I just spray water and is all clean...

[Digndoug]

Looks like you just went crazy with that black paint ricky.

[Exile04]

look in my profile<<<< oh nevermind i dont have pics of htem in there ill try to post some

This post has been edited by Exile04: Sep 24, 2004 - 1:42 PM

[ShadowFX]

so do all you guys paint them without removing it, and just taping it all off?

[chucho]

I removed mine, but have done it by taping on my friends lancer. Looks good either way

[Exile04]

ya i just taped it all

here pic of mine

This post has been edited by Exile04: Sep 25, 2004 - 10:11 PM

[ShadowFX]

would taking it apart be easier? (If i have the time)

[mjmsoccer]

i just taped mine off, its probably the lazy way out but if you tape it up well it will look as good as if you take it apart. personally, i didn't want to take the time to do it after my friend spent 7 hours doing it to his BMW

[ShadowFX]

Okay, im doing mine right now, taped off, the problem with mine is the paint isnt going on evenly, it keeps going into little groups of paint, so it looks all speckled, I used brake cleaner and then sanded it down, whats going on?

[Exile04]

what kind of paint u using i just used high heat enamal(sp?) works prefect...i didnt sand it or anything

[ShadowFX]

yeah im using high temp engine enamel.... im applying it in light coats though, after a few coats now its gone steady-ish

[ShadowFX]

okay finally got it done, the 'bubbling' couldnt really be seen after a few coats, its gone pretty even. I also painted the header cover (not sure what its called)

This post has been edited by ShadowFX: Sep 27, 2004 - 7:58 AM

[flipside97LTD]

Does the brake cleaner have any oil in it? If it has any kind of oilyness or leaves a film on the surface then that's the problem. Oils and paints don't mix like oil and water don't.

[Magic]

Shigexile I think RED will be very nice on your car

Ricky Great photos,and very clean

[ShadowFX]